The Political Economy Section looks forward to the next IAMCR annual conference and invites submissions (both individual proposals and collective panels) for the 2013 conference to be held at Dublin City University (DCU) in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, 25-29 June.
The conference will be held under the general theme "Crises, 'Creative Destruction' and the Global Power and Communication Orders”.
The conference theme centres on whether and how the current economic crisis and its attendant gales of "creative destruction" may serve to reshape the geo-political and communication orders. Will this crisis prompt or enable multi-dimensional change in the prevailing forms and modes of mediated communication on the one hand, and in global power structures and control processes on the other? The general conference theme is therefore highly relevant for a cross-cutting sections such as Political Economy and the following conference general sub-themes seem particularly relevant for the section:
- Whether and how the current crisis and associated restructuring processes may serve to further amplify the role of new/digital communication networks, services and functions or even accelerate the long-run processes of ‘mediatisation’? What does the current crisis imply for the evolving role and relations between ‘new’ and ‘mature’ media? What, if any, is the relation between the broader economic crisis and the specifics of ‘crisis’ (or ‘creative destruction’) within the news media and journalism sectors? In what ways will ‘new media’ developments further extend the long-run expansion of the role of successive media and communication networks, services, and functions across all key spheres of social, political and economic life?
- Will the current crisis amplify strategic shifts in geo-political orders and/or in the forms and operations of global power and influence, and if so, how?
- How has the current economic crisis served to challenge, change or re-affirm the ‘public interest’ or ’public service’ roles and orientations of the media? What are the implications of the financial and economic crisis for the prevailing theories and practices of professional journalism, news media or other media of public communication?
- How have the media served to define, characterise or represent the current crisis or to identify its implications for political, economic and social relations and the geo-political order? Does this crisis highlight tensions between the increasingly global scope of economic and financial relations and the ‘national prism’ framing political cultures and media discourses?
- In what ways is the current economic crisis likely to generate ‘new combinations’ of technological and political-economic, social or institutional innovations to enable a sustainable new period of social and economic development? What’s new and special about the role of mediated communication in enabling such a new phase of development – especially one that delivers enhanced welfare and social justice for the great majority of citizens whilst also addressing pressing environmental issues?
In addition to and/or in articulation with the conference sub-themes, the Political Economy Section also welcomes submissions on:
- Political economy of the Internet, social media, telecommunications and mobile communications
- Political economy of audiences,
- Political economy of journalism,
- Political economy of personal information,
- Moral economies, gift economies and free culture/free economy
- Media capital and financialization of corporate media,
- Public interest and public goods,
- Power, media policy and regulation,
- Media, citizenship and democracy,
- Tracking and analyzing processes of de-commodification or de-marketization in Communications and cultural policies,
- Cultural Industries and diversity
- Cultural and creative labor in the context of digitization and global capitalism,
- Continuing crisis (financial, moral, others),
- Communication experiences of the OccupyWallStreet, Arab Spring and Indignados around the world as counter hegemonic social agents
Aiming to reflect the state of the art, the Section is particularly open to new theoretical approaches and empirical developments.
Deadlines
15 November 2012
Open Computer System (OCS) available for abstract submission at http://iamcr-ocs.org
28 January 2013
OCS closed
28 February 2013
Notification of acceptances of abstracts
28 March 2013
Confirmation of participation deadline
15 April 2013
Final conference programme
28 May 2013
Deadline for full paper submission
25-29 June 2013
IAMCR Conference
Guidelines for Abstracts
Abstracts should be 300-500 words in length.
All abstract submissions must be made centrally via the OCS at http://iamcr-ocs.org
The Political Economy Section accepts only one paper per author. Individuals may submit 1 abstract (paper) per Section or Working Group as lead author, and a maximum of 2 abstracts (papers) to a single IAMCR conference in general. Presenters are expected to bring fully developed work to the conference. Prior to the conference, it is expected that a completed paper will be submitted to the Section.
General info on the conference
For further information on the conference, please contact the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) or consult the Conference Organizers website http://iamcr2013dublin.com/
Info on the Political Economy Section
For more information about the Political Economy Section and its plans for the Dublin conference, please contact the coordinating team:
Section Chair
Helena Sousa
University of Minho, Portugal
helena [at] ics.uminho.pt
Section Vice-Chair
Rodrigo Gómez
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
rgomez [at] correo.cua.uam.mx